On Mental Repair: Funny photo

Adapted from You Can Beat Depression: A Guide to Prevention and Recovery (Fourth Edition),, by Dr. John Preston. Available at online and local book­stores or directly from Impact Publishers, Inc., PO Box 6016, Atascadero, CA 93423-6016, http://www.bibliotherapy.com/


Part of my job as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor is to address "stinkin' thinkin'" -- destructive thoughts or cognitive distortions -- that people have, especially parents. My photographer friend Jamie (who is a REAL photographer, not like the rest of us wannabees on Flickr) thinks this shot should go on my business card. OK. -gw

This from my personal blog. -gw

On Come Consult With Us: Each 3rd Friday of the month

Come join us...

Our next consultation group will be Friday August 20th from 4 to 6 p.m. Please join us if you can. It's in Room 105 in the Department of Child and Family at Kitsap Mental Health in Bremerton.

What's our consultation like? Here's a brief snippet from last month's consult bringing up a topic of concern.



What got our consult group going? A conference last March 26th. -gw

On Keeping Up With Resources: Zero to Three on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/ZerotoThreeJournal

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If you are a heavy Facebook user, you may find it convenient to keep up with what's happening at Zero to Three through their Facebook page, as with the following note from the page. -gw

Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 11:15am

From the July 2010 issue of Zero to Three, "Home Visiting: Past, Present, and Future"
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THIS ISSUE AND WHY IT MATTERS

Public interest in home visiting is on the rise due to the large increase in federal funding for high quality, evidence-based home visitation to be provided through the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law on March 23, 2010. With this legislation, the federal government is making an unprecedented investment in home visiting programs that provide services to young children and their families. The law established a 5-year, $1.5 billion federal grant program for programs serving high-risk children and families, such as those in low-income families, pregnant women less than 21 years old, families with histories of abuse and neglect or substance abuse, children with developmental delays, and families in the military.

The emphasis on evidence-based programs mirrors the push over the past decade for more rigorous program evaluation demonstrating home visiting’s effectiveness. In the 1990s, home visiting was not well understood or accepted as a valuable strategy for delivering services. Funding was in short supply and program evaluations showed mixed results. The contributors to this issue of Zero to Three describe how the landscape for home visiting has changed over the last decade, with greater collaboration among national home visiting models and more rigorous evaluation leading to a better understanding of the key factors that can make programs successful. Learning how the characteristics of home visits—such as the dosage (frequency and duration), the content, and the quality of the relationships between home visitors and families—have an impact on program outcomes is helping researchers and practitioners look more deeply into the complexity of home visitation services.

An existing challenge is how to coordinate home visiting with other child and family services to provide a continuum of care, beginning during pregnancy and throughout the earliest years of life. In addition, the expansion and integration of home visiting services calls for welldeveloped systems and tools for collecting and sharing information and for the rigorous evaluation efforts that will ultimately lead to improved services and maximum benefits for young children and their families. The articles in this issue of Zero to Three provide a rich and thoughtful examination of the growth of the field of home visiting and the potential for the years to come.

Stefanie Powers, Editor
spowers@zerotothree.org

On Repairing the Effects of Trauma: Relationship-based treatment

Alicia Lieberman is one of the most well-recognized names in the ECMH field. This looks like it would be a great resource for the practitioner. -gw

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On a Job Opening: Infant Toddler Director position to be filled

Infant Toddler Program Director

Holly Ridge Center is currently recruiting a Director for our Infant Toddler Program. This position is to provide the leadership to a team of health care and educational professionals who deliver family centered, interdisciplinary, early intervention services to children birth to three years of age. This is a Full Time position. To learn more about us, visit our Web Site: http://www.hollyridge.org/.

Job Requirements: Minimum of a BA or BS in a related field; Masters preferred. Knowledge of early intervention preferred. Strong supervisory, leadership and interdisciplinary team management skills required. Candidates should be experienced working with infants and young children; and have knowledge of IDEA/Part B and C regulations. Wage is depended on level of experience and education.

HRC application required.

Holly Ridge Center,

5112 NW Taylor Rd.,

Bremerton, WA 98312

mailto:hrchr@hollyridge.org

EOE/AA

On Practitioner Preparation to Use the DC: 0-3 R: Donna Weston to give 2-day training in September

Ft Worden in September

This should help practitioners to jump into providing services to young children with both feet. -gw

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The Peninsula Regional Support Network presents….

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Assessment of Infants and Toddlers within a Family Context: Practitioner Preparation to Use the DC: 0-3 R™

DC: 0-3 is published by ZERO TO THREE.

Dates: Day 1 Monday, September 21, 2010 Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Day 2 Tuesday, September 22, 2010 Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

(Sign in/Hospitality: Begins 8:00 a.m. on each day.)

Location: Fort Worden-John F. Kennedy Hall—Port Towsend

Audience: Mental health clinicians and supervisors, infant mental health specialists, social workers, psychologists, therapists, pediatricians, nurses, and other professionals interested in the use of the DC: 0-3 R™.

Content: DC: 0-3 R™ responds to the needs for a diagnostic system that accounts for the unique developmental and relational needs of infants/toddlers in the context of their families. This 2 day intensive workshop for mental health clinicians, supervisors and other therapists addresses: the axes and diagnostic classifications used in DC: 0-3 R™; assessment, evaluation and diagnosis of very young children; and use of crosswalks between ZERO TO THREE’s DC: 0-3 R™ and DSM-IV and ICD-9 or 10. This in-depth training will use lecture, video, case presentation and discussion. Participants will discuss the unique developmental needs of very young children and apply clinical reasoning in developing diagnoses using clinical videotaping or printed case examples.

Presenter: Donna R. Weston, Ph.D., Developmental Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist, and infant mental health clinician with over 25 years of experience, and a member of ZERO TO THREE’s DC: 0-3 Task Force and Training Task Force. Dr. Weston is also in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and has a private practice in Seattle, Washington.

Contact: For registration complete attached form and return ASAP as space is limited questions please contact Linda Ward lward@co.kitsap.wa.us 360-337-4604 phone 360-337-5721 fax